The Many Talents of
John Gorham Palfrey
Our First Dean

• About this exhibit

1. Early Life
   
2. Minister
   
3. Society for the Promotion of Theological Education
   
4. Professor of Biblical Literature and Dean
   
5. Hazelwood
   
6. Editor
   
7. The State House
   
8. Slavery
   
9. The House of Representatives
10. Later Years

• Sarah Hammond Palfrey

This exhibit was originally prepared for display during March and April 1997 in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library by Clifford Wunderlich, Librarian for Public Services (with help from Doris Freitag, Gloria Korsman, Timothy Driscoll, and Christopher Walton). The online version was prepared by Clifford Wunderlich. Please direct corrections, comments, etc. to him.
	Most of the items on display are from the collection of this library. Scanned images of the title pages and other front matter are linked by the bookshelf icon or links in the text. In order to preserve clarity, many of the scanned images have been left quite large.
Most of the information and quotations from manuscripts comes from Palfrey's A Letter to a Friend (Cambridge: Metcalf, 1850), Frank Otto Gatell's John Gorham Palfrey and the New England Conscience (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963), and A Legacy of New England: Letters of the Palfrey Family, edited by Hannah Palfrey Ayer (privately printed, 1950). The portrait of Palfrey is a reproduction of one from the Unitarian Universalist Ministers File in our Manuscripts and Archives collection. On subsequent pages, this image serves as a link back to this page.

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